Stuttering DNA orchestrates the start of the mosquito's life

ScienceDaily
Apr 9, 2020, 10:03 am155 pts
There are large parts of the DNA that are not used for making proteins. This is called 'junk DNA', because its function remained unclear for a long time. However, a certain type of junk DNA that is found in mosquitoes and which repeats itself dozens of times, known as 'satellite DNA', has now been shown to play…

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